Reception
The Remains of The Day is one of the most highly-regarded post-war British novels. In 1989 the novel won the Man Booker Prize, one of the most prestigious literary prizes in the English speaking world.
The Remains of the Day appeared in a 2007 Guardian list of "Books you can't live without" and also in a 2009 "1000 novels everyone must read". In 2006, The Observer asked 150 literary writers and critics to vote for the best British, Irish or Commonwealth novel from 1980 to 2005; The Remains of the Day placed joint-eighth. It ranks 146th in a composite list of greatest twentieth century novels by Brian Kunde of Stanford University.
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